Har Har Har:
Not much to report.
Since I finished the Motorcycle diaries, I went to Borders and bought a couple of books from the £1.50 table of classics. Alice in Wonderland, 1001 Nights and The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Plus two Transmetropolitan Trade Paperbacks and a copy of Elric by Michael Moorcock.
I started reading the Brothers Grimm book on the tube yesterday as I went to buy a bunch of tickets. I read the Transmetro Trade on Wednesday night.
http://www.transmetropolitan.com/gimme.html
The Transmetro was interesting reading for me. First of all, it really drove home how much Warren Ellis (the writer of Transmetro) based the protagonist on Hunter S Thompson. I hadn't gleaned the sheer depth of that from my previous non-sequential reading of the title.
Secondly, it reminded me that I should really get off my ass and do more work to build a career (or at least a respectable hobby) as a journalist. To that end I bought a small dictaphone recorder with a widget that you can plug into a land-line to record interviews by phone.
I'm thinking of asking the land-lady about getting the land-line reconnected in the flat. It would probably work out much cheaper/easier than trying to do phone interviews in the dodgy little hole-in-the-wall international call kiosks they have here on Leytonstone High Road.
Caution is telling me not to commit to something that I might not be able ot keep up.
Caution is telling me not to overstretch myself.
Caution is telling me to take it easy.
I'm tired of Caution.
The internet cafe is just about to shut, so I have to wind this up.
Since I finished the Motorcycle diaries, I went to Borders and bought a couple of books from the £1.50 table of classics. Alice in Wonderland, 1001 Nights and The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm.
Plus two Transmetropolitan Trade Paperbacks and a copy of Elric by Michael Moorcock.
I started reading the Brothers Grimm book on the tube yesterday as I went to buy a bunch of tickets. I read the Transmetro Trade on Wednesday night.
http://www.transmetropolitan.com/gimme.html
The Transmetro was interesting reading for me. First of all, it really drove home how much Warren Ellis (the writer of Transmetro) based the protagonist on Hunter S Thompson. I hadn't gleaned the sheer depth of that from my previous non-sequential reading of the title.
Secondly, it reminded me that I should really get off my ass and do more work to build a career (or at least a respectable hobby) as a journalist. To that end I bought a small dictaphone recorder with a widget that you can plug into a land-line to record interviews by phone.
I'm thinking of asking the land-lady about getting the land-line reconnected in the flat. It would probably work out much cheaper/easier than trying to do phone interviews in the dodgy little hole-in-the-wall international call kiosks they have here on Leytonstone High Road.
Caution is telling me not to commit to something that I might not be able ot keep up.
Caution is telling me not to overstretch myself.
Caution is telling me to take it easy.
I'm tired of Caution.
The internet cafe is just about to shut, so I have to wind this up.
Over and Out.
posted by the.exile at 7:17 pm
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